Welding bumps and scoring out of diamonds is a never-ending task on any railroad. These pieces of track structure take hard pounding when trains pass over the frog sections. In this case, the Dorchester Branch sees a Readville Shuttle every half-hour during peak periods, and hourly otherwise. Add to that CSX's WARE-20, from Readville's 2 Yard, whatever extras come along, and the Readville Switcher, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's daily shuffle from Readville to Southampton Street Yard and then over to Somerville and return.
September 11, 2000

Photographed by Leo King, September 11, 2000.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, April 29, 2004.
Railroad: Amtrak/MBTA.

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